In Dordrecht zijn twee panden voor een aantal weken gesloten nadat er wapens en drugs waren gevonden. Het gaat om een huis aan de Waag en een winkelpand aan de Grote Spuistraat.
In het Capelse Schollebos loopt een ruzie tussen twee hondeneigenaren zo uit de hand dat een van hen bewusteloos in het zand beland. Bij de rechter hoopt Koos op een beetje begrip voor zijn agressie, want hij heeft niet de minste dingen meegemaakt.
The 60-second rule? Colour theory? Yet more ways we’re supposed to live our lives | Francesca Newton
In these times of social, political and even environmental instability, is it any wonder that we turn to influencers for instruction?
A group of young women are about to try colour analysis for the first time. One says she suspects she’s not “supposed to wear gold”, and then holds up both hands swathed in gold rings and bracelets. The video cuts to the same woman with a strip of gold fabric laid across her chest. A sad trumpet sound plays before the strip is whipped off and replaced with a silver one. “See?” the analyst says. “Way better here.” The woman says: “Yeah”, but she sounds unhappy.
Colour analysis is a method of picking out the shades that suit your skin tone. After its first life in the 1980s and 90s, “getting your colours done” found a new audience on TikTok in 2024 and has only become more popular since. This clip was one of many thrown up by my Instagram feed but it stuck with me, largely because it seemed so depressing in its portrayal of the trend as something to be endured rather than enjoyed. Directions on what you’re “supposed” or “not supposed” to wear, it intimated, should be followed even if it means sacrificing your own preferences.
Francesca Newton is a writer and editor
Continue reading...The Mumford & Sons frontman on farming, the fallout from contact sports as a kid and the four-letter word that’s banned at home
Born in California, Marcus Mumford, 39, formed the band Mumford & Sons in 2007. Two years later, they released their Brit award-winning debut Sigh No More, which included the song Little Lion Man. In 2013, Babel won album of the year at the Grammys, and in 2025 the band had their third No 1 album, Rushmere. Their latest release is Prizefighter and on 4 July they play BST Hyde Park in London. In 2022, Mumford made a solo record, Self‑Titled. He is married to the actor Carey Mulligan, has three children and lives in the West Country.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife, because she’s a legend.
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Men’s four-man bobsleigh In the workshop, a man carefully waxes down a sleigh. Another Canadian team next, under Dearborn, but they can’t improve on their countrymen.
Men’s four-man bobsleigh: The French have a cracking silver sled, but it all goes wrong at the start when one of the riders gets his foot stuck.
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Johan Lange, the Tottenham sporting director, has explained the rationale behind Igor Tudor’s hire as head coach until the end of the season. Lange said: “it’s very important to go into a shorter process than you do if you are changing a head coach over the summer. We interviewed a few candidates. Igor impressed us very, very much in the interview.
“He comes in with very big experience at the highest level in football. As a player, playing for a very, very big club, one of the biggest clubs in the world in Juve. Of course he was part of this very good generation of Croatia national team in the late 90s. He has shown the capabilities of coming into clubs around this time, February, March, and also big clubs, and made an immediate performance impact. That was of course a very big reason.”
Continue reading...After surviving a coup, and with his critics chastened, No 10 insiders say a more combative PM is up for taking the fight to Reform UK
Two days after Keir Starmer had been disowned by the Scottish Labour leader last week, and as a row raged over another controversial peerage, the prime minister decided to pick a fight with a billionaire.
It was a dark week for the prime minister, with the departure of his longtime chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, who had become a deeply divisive figure and who took the hit for the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite his links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Continue reading...‘Last year I read 137 books’: could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?
BookTok influencer Jack Edwards motivates himself with reading goals – and he’s not alone. Authors and avid readers discuss the rise of metrics, and reveal how many books they finished last year
Every January, thousands of readers log on to Goodreads, Instagram or TikTok and make the same declaration: this is the year I read 50 books. Or 75. Or 100. Screenshots of spreadsheets circulate, templates for tracking pages and percentages are downloaded, friends publicly pledge to “do better” than they did last year. What was once a private pastime is announced, quantified and, in some corners of the internet, judged.
The appeal is obvious: in a distracted age, reading can easily become crowded out by work, screens and fatigue. Literacy rates in the UK are stagnating: in 2024, around 50% of UK adults read regularly for pleasure, down from 58% in 2015.
Continue reading...Church suspends Stephen Conway as police investigate claim man was sexually assaulted between 2018 and 2025
The bishop of Lincoln has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
Lincolnshire police confirmed that a 68-year-old man was arrested as part of an “ongoing investigation following an allegation that a man was sexually assaulted between 2018 and 2025”.
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- CHARBON ( Coal ) - Experimental Digital Surrealist Collage Series. This project explores the intersection of analog nostalgia and digital distortion. Created using a hybrid workflow of scanned analog collages, retro magazine scans, hand-drawn elements, photography & more - the goal was to achieve a distinct LO-FI/Punk aesthetic. These elements were blended with original digital graphics and modern computer tools to create surrealist compositions.
Journaliste Jessica Toonkel van de WSJ kampte twee jaar met jeuk die dokters toeschreven aan de overgang. Het was stadium 2 lymfeklierkanker. Waarom mist de geneeskunde vrouwenklachten zo vaak?
Jessica Toonkel rende 's ochtends haar rondjes, maar de jeuk kroop over haar rug, buik en ledematen. Zweten verergerde het. Dokters schreven het toe aan hormonale schommelingen: perimenopauze, gluten, stress. Ze slikte biologische medicijnen, dronk selderijsap en probeerde progesteroncrème. Niets hielp.
Uiteindelijk, uitgeput op de spoed, toonde een CT-scan een massa in haar long en vochtophoping. Biopsie bevestigde kanker. Na zes maanden chemo is ze in remissie. De jeuk verdween al na twee infusen. Haar ervaring onderstreept een breder probleem: geneeskunde baseert zich op mannelijke normen, waardoor vrouwen later gediagnosticeerd worden.
Vrouwen wachten bij kanker soms maanden langer dan mannen. Symptomen als vermoeidheid of pijn worden afgedaan als menopauze. In Nederland waarschuwt Kanker.nl voor overlappende klachten, maar structurele bias blijft. Patiënten moeten bijven vragen om scans.
Deze casus pleit voor meer bewustzijn. Dokters: luister naar vrouwen. Vrouwen: eis second opinions. Vroeg signaleren redt levens.
Op deze Olympische Winterspelen doet geen Russisch team mee. Toch zijn er 51 geboren Russen als sporter aanwezig op de Spelen.
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Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) that use high-energy proton beams to transmute long-lived nuclear waste into shorter-lived isotopes. "The process also generates significant heat, which can be harnessed to produce additional electricity for the grid," reports Interesting Engineering. The projects are supported by $8.17 million in grants from the Department of Energy's NEWTON (Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now) program. From the report: The researchers are developing ADS technology. This system uses a particle accelerator to fire high-energy protons at a target (such as liquid mercury), triggering a process called "spallation." This releases a flood of neutrons that interact with unwanted, long-lived isotopes in nuclear waste. The technology can effectively "burn" the most hazardous components of the waste by transmuting these elements. While unprocessed fuel remains dangerous for approximately 100,000 years, partitioning and recycling via ADS can reduce that window to just 300 years. [...]
To make ADS economically viability, Jefferson Lab is tackling two primary technical hurdles: efficiency and power. Traditional particle accelerators require massive, expensive cryogenic cooling systems to reach superconducting temperatures. Jefferson Lab is pioneering a more cost-effective approach by coating the interior of pure niobium cavities with tin. These niobium-tin cavities can operate at higher temperatures, allowing for the use of standard commercial cooling units rather than custom, large-scale cryogenic plants. The team is also developing spoke cavities, which is a complex design intended to drive even higher efficiency in neutron spallation.
The second project focuses on the power source behind the beam. Researchers are adapting the magnetron -- the same component that powers microwave ovens -- to provide the 10 megawatts of power required for ADS. The primary challenge is that the energy frequency must match the accelerator cavity precisely at 805 Megahertz. In collaboration with Stellant Systems, researchers are prototyping advanced magnetrons that can be combined to reach the necessary high-power thresholds with maximum efficiency. The NEWTON program aims to enable the recycling of the entire US commercial nuclear fuel stockpile within the next 30 years.
To make ADS economically viability, Jefferson Lab is tackling two primary technical hurdles: efficiency and power. Traditional particle accelerators require massive, expensive cryogenic cooling systems to reach superconducting temperatures. Jefferson Lab is pioneering a more cost-effective approach by coating the interior of pure niobium cavities with tin. These niobium-tin cavities can operate at higher temperatures, allowing for the use of standard commercial cooling units rather than custom, large-scale cryogenic plants. The team is also developing spoke cavities, which is a complex design intended to drive even higher efficiency in neutron spallation.
The second project focuses on the power source behind the beam. Researchers are adapting the magnetron -- the same component that powers microwave ovens -- to provide the 10 megawatts of power required for ADS. The primary challenge is that the energy frequency must match the accelerator cavity precisely at 805 Megahertz. In collaboration with Stellant Systems, researchers are prototyping advanced magnetrons that can be combined to reach the necessary high-power thresholds with maximum efficiency. The NEWTON program aims to enable the recycling of the entire US commercial nuclear fuel stockpile within the next 30 years.
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Het kabinet-Jetten verdedigt zich tegen de kritiek dat het coalitieakkoord de hoogste inkomens en meest vermogenden ontziet. De oppositie wijst erop dat de midden- en lagere inkomens het hardst geraakt worden door de plannen. “Rijk zijn moet eindelijk weer lonen”, reageert het kabinet bij monde van premier Rob Jetten. “Daar werken we keihard aan.”
“Te lang is het zo geweest dat het helemaal niet loonde om erg vermogend te zijn. Je had er veel te weinig aan om een volle spaarrekening, een tweede huis en een dikke auto voor de deur te bezitten. Daar maken wij korte metten mee”, stelt Jetten. “Veel mensen vroegen zich de afgelopen jaren af of het nog wel nut had om tot de rijkste paar procent van het land te behoren. Ons antwoord is: vanaf nu weer wel, ja.”
Vicepremier Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD) laat weten: “Wij zijn er voor de hard-vermogende Nederlander. Wij zorgen dat iedereen, of je nu advocaat of arts bent, rust in de aandelenportefeuille heeft.”
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The UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others.…